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Definition of 'DIE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (died, dy&syl;ing.) die
to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of vital functions; become dead.

2.  die
to cease to exist; vanish:
The happy look died on her face.

3.  die
to lose force, strength, or active qualities.

4.  die
to cease to function; stop:
The engine died.

5.  die
to pass gradually; fade or subside gradually (usu. fol. by away, out, or down).

6.  die
to faint or languish.

7.  die
to suffer as if fatally:
I'm dying of boredom!

8.  die
to pine with desire, love, longing, etc.

9.  die
to desire keenly:
I'm dying for a cup of coffee.

10.  die
Theol. to lose spiritual life.

11.  die
to be no longer subject; become indifferent:
to die to worldly matters.

12.  die
die away, (of a sound) to become fainter and then cease altogether.

13.  die
die down, to become calm or quiet; subside.

14.  die
die off, to die one after another until the number is greatly reduced.

15.  die
die out,

16.  die
to cease to exist; become extinct.

17.  die
to die away; fade; subside.

18.  die
to give way or cease to exist only slowly or after a bitter struggle:
Childhood beliefs die hard.

19. (n.) die
any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.

20.  die
a hollow device of steel for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.

21.  die
a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.

22.  die
an engraved stamp for impressing a design upon some softer material.

23. (v.t.) die
to impress, shape, or cut with a die.

Definition of 'DIE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) die, dice
a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

2. (noun) die
a device used for shaping metal

3. (verb) die
a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods

4. (verb) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
"She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

5. (verb) die
suffer or face the pain of death
"Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

6. (verb) die
be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
"I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"

7. (verb) fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
stop operating or functioning
"The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

8. (verb) die
feel indifferent towards
"She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

9. (verb) die
languish as with love or desire
"She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"

10. (verb) die, die out
cut or shape with a die
"Die out leather for belts"

11. (verb) die
to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

12. (verb) die, pall, become flat
lose sparkle or bouquet
"wine and beer can pall"

13. (verb) die
disappear or come to an end
"Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"

14. (verb) die
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
"Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

Definition of 'DIE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) die
to stop living
My mother died at the age of 84.; He died of a heart attack.

2. die
dying to
very eager to
I'm dying to find out what happens next.

3. die
dying of
feeling bad because of
We were dying of hunger/thirst/boredom.

Definition of 'DIE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) DIE
a small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice

2. (noun) DIE
any small cubical or square body

3. (noun) DIE
that which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance

4. (noun) DIE
that part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado

5. (noun) DIE
a metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc

6. (noun) DIE
a perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing

7. (noun) DIE
a hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool

8. DIE
of Dice

9. (verb) DIE
to pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought

10. (verb) DIE
to suffer death; to lose life

11. (verb) DIE
to perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished

12. (verb) DIE
to sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc

13. (verb) DIE
to become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin

14. (verb) DIE
to recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away

15. (verb) DIE
to disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face

16. (verb) DIE
to become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor

Definitions of 'DIE'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. DIE
Syn. crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software. See also go flatline, casters-up mode.

Translation of 'DIE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to lose life; to stop living and become dead Those flowers are dying; She died of old age.
Afrikaans: doodgaan	Arabic: يَموت	Bulgarian: умирам
Brazilian: morrer	Czech: zemřít, odumřít	German: sterben
Danish: dø; omkomme; gå ud	Greek: πεθαίνω	Spanish: morir
Estonian: surema	Farsi: مردن؛ خشکیدن	Finnish: kuolla
French: mourir	Hebrew: לָמוּת	Hindi: मरना
Croatian: umrijeti	Hungarian: meghal	Indonesian: mati
Icelandic: deyja	Italian: morire	Japanese: 死ぬ
Korean: 죽다	Lithuanian: mirti	Latvian: []mirt; (par augiem) novī
Malay: mati	Dutch: sterven	Norwegian: dø, omkomme
Polish: umierać	Persian: مردن؛ خشکیدن	Pashto: مر کیدل
Portuguese: morrer	Romanian: a muri	Russian: гибнуть; умирать
Slovak: umrieť, odumrieť	Slovenian: umreti	Serbian: umreti
Swedish: dö	Thai: ตาย	Turkish: ölmek
Taiwanese: 死	Ukrainian: умирати; в'янути	Urdu: بے جان ہونا ؛ مرنا
Vietnamese: chết; qua đời	Chinese: 死
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